Consuming HAL-based REST service with spring-hateoas

Question

I\'m trying to consume a HAL-based REST service with the RestTemplate class. The response body looks like this:

{
  \"_embedded\": {
    \"school:teachers\":         


        

Answer 1

I too faced a similar problem. And the way I chose to work around it is :

        ResponseEntity response = restTemplate.exchange(
                "http://localhost:8080/payment/search/findByApprovalDate?approvalDate=2017-11-06", HttpMethod.GET,
                null, String.class);

        String data = response.getBody();

        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
        om.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);

        JsonNode jsNode = om.readTree(data);
        String test = jsNode.at("/_embedded/payment").toString();

        payments = om.readValue(test, new TypeReference>() {
        });